On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 13:32:51 +0100, Mike Martin <redt...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi when I was trying (and failing) to get a bootable pen-drive, with > the F13 live image I accidentally did the following > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1 > > which returned nearly immediately and now I have no data on the disk. > > The disk is 750 gig , of which about 400 is used. I am hoping that > only the partition table is gone, if not is there any way to recover > from my disaster
I believe that command just changed the first 512 bytes. If you know how it was partitioned you can probably get things back by making a new partition table. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
